Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to A brand new, "highly optimised" image format for the next generation
hey there hn! thought you would appreciate my brand new file format - i've spent over 40 minutes creating this standard. it's really hard trying to get your ideas shown to standards boards etc but i think with the great community here we can help get bioif support into all major browsers :) the spec is available over at the website, as is a reference implementation. it already has higher usage than jpeg-xl. - best
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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PixelBlock▲117Just got around to updating this to support MV3. Has been featured on HN a few times. I make this in my spare time to support user privacy. Free extension (has been for years). Mods: Would be awesome if this could hit front page so people can benefit
2014 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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LTX.bio▲164Hey HN, after our 13B release we've been working on a faster version of our open-source video model and we're excited to share it. We started with a 13B base model that already had competitive generation speeds (e.g. 55s for a 5s video on an H100 — faster than any other model out there). But we wanted to push it further to allow everyone to quickly iterate over their video generations. So we built a distilled version focused on speed without sacrificing temporal or spatial coherence. With the Distilled model, you can now generate 5-second 720p videos in about 9.5 seconds on an H100, and…
2021 · lightricks.com · its alternatives →
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This is a personal project I've been working on for a long time now. I stumbled upon the color quantization problem while doing something related for work. I then found an interesting paper for which I could find no implementations online, and the thing went from "let's implement this paper" to getting pretty obsessed with the whole thing. It's at an early, eaaaarly stage. There's a lot of work to be done, and it's a memory hog, but generally speaking works quite well, and the output is for the most part very high quality, so I'm happy to share it as beta.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 4JI
Convert any major image format into a highly optimized JPEG
2016 · jpeg.io · its alternatives →
- 5AW
Hey, I've made a pdf reader with ai assistance, you can quickly ask questions about the text and the images, and it will have context about all of your reading material so you can ask questions freely, try it now, I'm in open beta to find bug and get feedback. upcoming features: - Highlighting - Highlighting with Notes - Bibliography - Automatic Reference file opening - Improved UX and robustness currenlty alot of bugs so please let me know if you found any. feedback appreciated
2025 · pdf-hub.com · its alternatives →
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GIF.new▲18i use GIFs a lot in my personal/professional life and so I'm pretty passionate about the topic :P about a month ago I found out that this domain was available and couldn't believe it. Waited a good 3 weeks to pull the trigger on buying it (which, btw is hella expensive by default) and in the meantime, hopped from one idea to another on what it should house. original idea was to build some kind of prompt-to-GIF service but very soon realised that i can't sustain the AI bill on my budget (top contender was to use runway). then came the idea of animating charts from data (obvious: i work…
2025 · gif.new · its alternatives →
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I started this because similar Chrome extensions were paywalling features and I wanted a free, open source alternative. I'm new to this, so I would appreciate feedback and tips if anyone has some!
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 8IB
Compress high quality JPEG images 35% more than traditional codecs.
2024 · optimize.photos · its alternatives →
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Enlarger▲6Hey everyone! I know there are gazillion alternatives out there especially with AI and all, but this nevertheless is my take on it. I created it because I was frustrated with the options I was seeing in the market. Too heavy, too complex, UX was meh, the output created was not resonating with my style of photography, they are generally glitchy or hallucinate too much, and I dislike subscription fees or credits personally. I prefer BIFL licenses and desktop apps. Since most will probably compare it to the free and open source Upscayl, I went ahead and did a comparison post on the visual…
Jul 2026 · enlarger.app · its alternatives →
- 10IB
Hello HN, I've used a lot of image converter websites to run for my daily jobs, but they required uploading my assets on their servers which I didn't like. I decided to build it myself and publish as a website for everyone to use at no cost (since the conversion happened on your browsers) I'd live to hear your thoughts about it. Cheers,
2024 · dynapik.com · its alternatives →
- 11AB
Hi, so over the weekend I built a free to use service to compress one or more images using MozJEPG encoding enabled via WASM. It's a static site, all the processing happens on the client side, no file uploads or sign-ups needed! Why? The existing services are either filled with ads or require you to sign-up / pay. would greatly appreciate any feedback! TIA!
2024 · captaindavinci.github.io · its alternatives →
- 12IM
I used to use rawpixels.net for this purpose, but that website suddenly disappeared earlier this year. I threw together this web app as a replacement. It's nothing fancy, but it does what I need, and it might do what you need too. Feel free to suggest a new name. PixPeep is the name I came up with because it lets you peep at pixel buffers, but the name is already used by something else (and it's honestly not that great).
2024 · pixpeep.mort.coffee · its alternatives →
- 13WV
Hey everyone, my friend and I created a GitHub Wrapped video for developers to showcase their activity on the platform in a more fun way. The implementation is open-source (https://github.com/rendleyhq/github-wrapped-2024) if you're interested in how it was built. To get a bit geeky, we used masks, keyframe animations, luma key shaders to remove the background from the confetti video, and some other techniques. Also, everything is rendered directly in the browser!! I'm curious to hear your thoughts on the rendering performance, especially if you're running this on your…
2024 · rendley.com · its alternatives →
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Would love to hear your feedback! It's 100% free. :-)
2024 · wizardshot.com · its alternatives →
- 15IR
I’ve been frustrated with PDFs and found arXiv HTML lacking, so I built a fully interactive paper reader. Features: • Hover references, citations, equations • Light/dark mode • Auto-generated dependency graphs for definitions/lemmas/theorems • Table of contents that syncs with scroll • Highlighting + annotations • “Copy raw LaTeX” anywhere Featured paper: Video models are zero-shot learners and reasoners (Veo 3) https://www.sciencestack.ai/arxiv/2509.20328v2
Nov 2025 · sciencestack.ai · its alternatives →
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Hey hey! This is a tool I've worked on for a while, and it's reached the point I'm quite happy with the results! Comments and suggestions are appreciated :) Enjoy your day!
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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PixelFlex - лучший конвертор файлов
Jun 2026 · pixelflex-one.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Expi▲9Hey folks! For starter, I'm a 17+ senior cinematic designer (damn I'm getting old haha) and this tool is a culmination of many years of frustration or missing features or absolutely terrible UI/UX from other tools. So, I'm surmounting my anxiety of showing personal work and passion project, even after all these years, I'm still struggling on showing my work haha. It's been roughly two years now that I've been hard at work on creating my perfect little export/converting tool that I wish I had in my pocket for all my exporting needs. I've built https://getexpi.app ! It's…
Feb 2026 · getexpi.app · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I've got the barebones of a service running on top of Stable Diffusion XL. I can cheaply run image generations at 1024x1024. And of course there's a limit to how fast I can generate them given the request queue and limited GPUs, but the service is cheap enough that I'm happy to run it out of pocket for now. Let me know your thoughts, I hope you enjoy the service!
2023 · unstock.ai · its alternatives →
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I've just revamped my website for image-to-image conversion called Ekpic and would love to get your feedback on the new version. I have not visitors nor anything, but hey, whatever . In any case, I wanted to have good metrics for speed. I just changed the framework to astro. Still various modifications to do. All images are converted locally, that's one of the reasons I created the site. Also, I wanted something a bit more modern than the standard.
2025 · ekpic.com · its alternatives →
- 21IM
Try it at: ssh krnl.duetbrowser.com No sign up, totally free - no download. Let me know what you think. Prior art exists (brow.sh) but I wasn't satisfied with their graphical take. I wanted the raw, old skool terminal days of the early internet - BBS, and old green phosphor library comptuers - but running the modern web, with all the bells and jingle jangle whistles (JavaScript, etc). No funding, no VC, just 100% raw terminal fun. Not sure how long the demo will last, but try it out.
Jul 2026 · its alternatives →
- 22VI
This was submitted before but it didn't seem to get much attention because I don't think the title was very descriptive and the submitter was brand new. I almost didn't click it but once I did I thought the project was pretty awesome and had a lot of promise. Hope this doesn't violate the rules, I have no horse in the game, but the creator is here on the site so hopefully he'll be able to answer your questions.
2022 · docs.vaxiin.io · its alternatives →
- 23MW
http://imagestash.org/ Kind of like Instapaper for images. While surfing at home one evening I found the perfect desktop background ... for my work machine. I got to pondering the quickest way to save a random image so I could get to it on all of my devices, got a wee bit carried away with the technical possibilities, and this was the result. Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks!
2011 · imagestash.org · its alternatives →
- 24IB
I had 14,000 photos sitting on a drive and wanted an excuse to play with local vision models and Elixir/Phoenix. I originally tried to get LLaVA to tell me if a photo was 'good' or matched my style, but quickly learned that LLMs have terrible taste. I ended up demoting the LLM to just extract metadata, and built a custom CLIP/Ridge Regression pipeline to actually learn my preferences based on how I rate things. The stack is Phoenix/Oban on the orchestrator side, and Python/FastAPI/Instructor for the AI workers. Happy to answer any questions about the architecture,…
Apr 2026 · qwelian.com · its alternatives →
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